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Doujin circle Studio Siesta has announced on their site that their horizontal scrolling shooter Trouble Witches will be hitting the arcades in 2008. They haven’t released any details on how the arcade version will be like, but they have revealed that the arcade version will support 2 player play.

They have also announced that they are in the process of making a major update for the PC version of the game which they plan to release in March. (The patch will be different from the arcade version)

These doujin game stuff are taking over the arcades…!?

Shinjuku keizai reports that the first Kara no kyoukai movie which had started airing on the 1st of December has experienced record success at Theatre Shinjuku, having about 20,000 people watching the movie in 4 weeks and setting records for the number of days in a row where the theatre is full.

They originally only planned to have one evening show at Theatre Shinjuku everyday, but after seeing the incredible demand for the movie, they quickly added a morning show to keep up with the demand. They ended up having a total of 70 showings at Theatre Shinjuku and a total of 19,137 viewers for the first movie.

They allow a limited number of people to watch the movie while standing, and there are only 218 seats in the theatre, so basically there is an average of 55 people standing and watching the movie with every showing.

The article reports that the theatre has not seen such record success since it has been set up, and Theatre Shinjuku has been around since 1968 and had a renewal in 1988.

The movie only aired in Theatre Shinjuku (late show and morning show) and Ikebukuro Theatre Dia (morning show only), which is part of the reason why there has been such high demand for the movie in those theatres.

Via: Shinjuku Keizai, Presepe

I thought the first movie was totally awesome. The ufotable guys really knew their stuff, it’s definitely the best Type-moon anime by far. But maaan, I wonder how the guys who haven’t read the novel felt about the movie.

The master craftsman has returned once again and is now auctioning a PS3 with a beautifully carved rendition of Suigintou, and apparently there was some trouble with the previous buyer of the DS Lite and he has put it back up for auction again, now with colour!

Video games and hobby chain Lepton has reported on their website that they are unable to meet the preorders of Smash Brothers X that people have made in their stores because they only managed to secure 156 copies of the game when they ordered 806 from Nintendo.

Lepton has tried to buy the games at full price from other sources just so they can fill the preorders, but nobody as any stock. They have then managed to secure an additional 100 copies of the game at 7350 yen each, which is at a price that is even higher than the selling price of the game which is 6800 yen (they’ll be losing money with each sale).

They still do not have enough copies of the game to fill preorders.

The first shipment is only 300,000 to 400,000 copies apparently, and priority for copies of the game is going to stores that are affiliated with the manufacturer. Lepton isn’t one of them.

Looks like a lot of people will not have their game next week…

Japanese blog Spiral Market has a feature on the popular designer hotels scattered around Japan where all the popular guys know to bring the girls to! The rates for the rooms aren’t really too expensive but it’s apparently really hard to book a room in the hotels.

The site has pics and links to the hotel’s websites so take a look.

With this info you can master the art of sweets(lol) and get the girls!

Everybody sure loves rankings now that 2007 is over! The eroge boards have voted for the best eroge of 2007 and the results are in.

Little Busters isn’t in the list because it isn’t eroge.

1st place
Sekai de ichiban NG na koi
by Hermit
Released 22/11/2007

2nd place
Kira☆kira
by Overdrive
Released 22/11/2007

3rd place
Katahane
by Tarte
Released 26/01/2007

4th place
Sekien no Inganock -What a beautiful people-
by Liar soft
Released 22/11/2007

5th place
R.U.R.U.R
by Light
27/04/2007

6th place
Koitore -REN-AI TRAINING-
by Gindokei
Released 29/06/2007

7th place
Soshite ashita no sekai yori–
by etude
Released 22/11/2007

8th place
Sugar+Spice!
by Chuable soft
Released 28/09/2007

9th place
Gekkou no Carnevale
by Nitro+
Released 26/01/2007

10th place
Ashita no kimi to au tame ni
by Purple software
Released 30/11/2007

11) Yuugeki keikan Patvessel -kochira shutokenjoukuu aozorasho-
12) Himawari no Chapel de kimi to
13) Musumeshimai
14) Koisuru otome to shugo no tate
15) Clover Point
16) Zoku. Satsuriku no Django -Jigoku no shoukinkubi-
17) Natsumero
18) Itsuka, todoku, ano sora ni.
19) Bullet Butlers
20) Ohzoku
21) Seinarukana - The Spirit of Eternity Sword 2 -
22) Himekishi Angelica ~Anatatte, hontouni saitei no kuzu da wa~
23) Shakkin shimai
24) Koibitodoushi de suru koto zenbu
25) Draculius
26) Osananajimi to ama~ku ecchi ni sugosu houhou

Daienjou reports that the latest issue of Magazine SPECIAL has announced that the wonderful manga Sumire Sixteen!! will be made into a TV drama too. Sumire Sixteen!! is about Yotsuya Sumire who’s an ordinary highschool girl that’s really a puppet being carried around by a ventriloquist.

I’ve always been meaning to introduce this manga on the site for a while but never got around to it either…!

In a surprise move, the Comic Valkyrie official site has announced that the currently ongoing manga Mitsurugi Haruka kiken ippatsu will be made into a live action drama by ZEN pictures, who are “famous for action films featuring fighting girls”. The show will start 7th March and will run for 4 episodes.

Mitsurugi Haruka kiken ippatsu is a pretty unique manga in that it runs in a gamebook style, where Haruka would get into some sort of dangerous situation, and you flip to a certain page in the magazine to decide what she’ll do next. And at the end of every chapter, they have a mail-in poll where the readers get to decide what she should do in the next chapter.

I’ve been meaning to write about this manga since it was the only thing that really caught my attention in Comic Valkyrie.

In completely unrelated news, J-cast reports that the idol unit Morning Musume’s only regular TV show, Haromoni@, has finally hit a record low 0.8% viewership. I’m surprised that they’re still going after 10 years, but it sounds like it’s finally time for them to end!

Lots of the old fans don’t even know a single one of the current members apparently.

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